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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 11: Sections 61-63.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Boorstin say Afghanistani made possible according to Hindus?
(a) Transformation.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Sight.
(d) Strife.

2. What artistic movement does Boorstin say Monet initiated?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Surrealism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Dadaism.

3. When were the cave drawings discovered?
(a) 1800s.
(b) 1600s.
(c) 1700s.
(d) 1900s.

4. What made Lyrical Ballads revolutionary according to Boorstin?
(a) It attributed unheard-of political agency to each individual.
(b) It refined poetic forms in their most perfect crystallization.
(c) It made poetry closer to lived experience.
(d) It turned each individual into a microcosm of the universe.

5. What does Boorstin say man seeks in making art?
(a) Rebellion against God.
(b) Fame.
(c) Gain.
(d) Immortality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Boorstin say does the artist's job in photography?

2. What does Paul Valery say the artist's business is in the epigraph to Book 1?

3. What does Boorstin say Christianity got people to see?

4. What does Boorstin say Eliot tried to express in "The Waste Land"?

5. What did Bondone create according to Boorstin?

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